My MT work is going GREAT! I am working for 2 companies now and LOVE it! I even have another company looking to hire me full time, so we'll see how that goes! I'd love to work f/t because of better pay and benefits after 90 days! My line count is coming up and for this past week, I've been getting up at 7 a.m. and doing 5-6 reports then read in my scriptures and relax until afternoon and then do 5 more reports, then do laundry or housework and log on for the LAST time for the day and finish off with another 5-6 reports! I am doing about 100-150 lines more since I've been doing it this way! YAY for a WORKING system!! I am also incorporating exercise too and I got the book "The 17 Day Diet" from Jentry cuz I've been wanting it. I want to be able to get up and ride my bike while watching t.v. for 20 min. then go at night around the block a couple times to start out. I am eating well too. Things are looking UP for me! :)
Today it's May 13th (Friday the 13th) and I had a few minutes to add some of my FAVE pics of Britnee on her 22nd birthday and talk about what's been going on in our family. Britnee and Jordan got an ALL expensive paid birthday retreat to Park City from a good friend of theirs and after their relaxing time in Park City, they stopped by home to open presents and visit with OUR newest additions...Rocky and Apollo. They sure LOVED the pups and the pups loved them back!! In the top photo...Britnee had just opened her mantel clock that says "Time Spent Together Makes Our House A Home." In the 2nd pic...Britnee is holding Rocky and holding her plant/flower I gave her and the black stoneware. The 3rd pic...Brit and Jordan are holding the dogs and they are ALL looking at the camera, which was SO cute! The 4th pic is of her and Jentry with her stoneware. I liked the pic of my 2 SWEET girls!! She got some nice gifts and I made her a homemade cheesecake with cherry topping (a tradition we've done for her for 6-7 years now). Britnee said it was one of her FAVE birthdays!! I'm SO glad cuz she deserves the BEST!! We all LOVE our Britnee!! :)Mother's Day was a VERY nice day! ALL of my kids wrote endearing and beautiful posts on F/B for me and then each gave me sweet gifts. Jentry gave me a NICE card, a book, earrings, and a Venus Razor with refill cartridges. Brock gave me eyeshadow, eyeliner, powder makeup, mascara and lip gloss and a SWEET card and Britnee gave me a pair of black and white polka dot pjs, slippers, choc. covered pretzels and choc. covered graham crackers, and a beautiful yellow rose and PRETTY card too! My mom and I exchanged gifts at Golden Corral (where we went to eat) and she gave me the COOLEST Hurricane vase with a flickering (battery-powered) candle inside, and the book "To The Rescue" about our prophet, Thomas S. Monson. I even got 3 homemade cards from friends from MT school and a card from one of my mom's old friends, Claudia! VERY nice of them! A GREAT day!! I'm SO proud of ALL 3 of my beautiful kids and they certainly ARE the jewels in my crown!! BTW...NO JERRY BACK YET! We have counseling in the morning, and I am praying for a miracle cuz I'd like him to come back! I forgive and don't want to lose a 16 year marriage over ANYTHING that is in the past!! I am willing to work, but he has to want to work too! I can't do it for BOTH of us! I DO love him and want to try my HARDEST to get him to come back to me! We'll see...
To end this post...Jentry is getting ready for her Pioneer Trek (Walk As A Witness) July 13-16th (Bountiful Utah Central Stake Trek) instead of camp and each FHE I am making sure she memorize the Trek scripture which is: Mosiah 24:14. She is also supposed to read 3 Nephi 11 before going on the trek too. I am also seeing to it that she memorizes the 2 hymns: "Lord I Would Follow Thee" and "Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel." I gave her a Preach My Gospel book (just for her) so she can also study Chapter 4 and do the activities in that chapter. We will do a couple activities together in that chapter as a family, but I felt she needed her own manual to write notes and read the WHOLE chapter, plus I wrote down ALL the things she NEEDS to do to prepare for the Trek...like I'm writing here. So, there is NO excuse that she is NOT prepared for this NEAT Stake Trek coming up! She is also reading at least 10 minutes a night in the Book of Mormon and she is starting to walk for 15 min. 3 x's a week and then by June she should be walking 30 min. 3 x's a week. We will go over the Strength of Youth booklet and discuss it together and I am reading pioneer stories every other night too. I asked friends and family on F/B to tell me any ancestor or pioneer stories they know, so that I'll have plenty to relate to my family before she goes. I have 5 small stories and 3 bigger ones and I hope to get more stories, so if you read this blog, PLZ email me at: shelljb31@yahoo.com with any good pioneer/ancestor stories OR any story or article you've read concerning the EARLY years of the church! I want her to have a SPIRITUAL experience and I know that if I prepare her by doing these things in our FHE's she will have a WONDERFUL time! I know it'll be DIFFERENT for her cuz she's used to her cell phone (texting PRO), laptop use, hair straightner, makeup, and stylin' clothes, and there will be NONE of these allowed on the Trek...which is a GOOD thing!! I hope she learns a GREAT deal of what our early ancestors and the early Saints went through to get to Utah and make this place THEIR home! And they went through A LOT!! A very physically and emotionally draining journey for them! We are SO grateful for their MANY sacrifices! I will be getting a bookmark from Sister Leary on Sunday (it has 17 other trek scriptures on it) that I want my kids and us to learn and mark in our scriptures too. She is also going to go to any temple baptisms before the Trek. She has already gone to ONE 3 weeks ago at 5 a.m. I am even gonna get up to the temple 2-3 times before her Trek because I NEED to visit the temple and this gives me a reason to attend! I just LOVE attending the temple, but it's been SO hard right now because I don't have a car! I will get up there sometime this next week for sure! I will report that I went to the temple in my NEXT weekly post!! Oh...also the parents were asked to write a letter to our daughter with our love for her and our testimony that will be delivered at some point on the Trek by the Pony Express. Jerry and I got ours done and turned them in to Sister Bradbury yesterday. PRETTY NIFTY IDEA!!! I hope she likes what we had to say to her! I know it came from OUR hearts!! I will talk more about what we are doing and how things are going with the memorization next time.
**In the News...Osama Bin Laden (terrorist in charge of the 9/11 terrorist plots was shot and killed on May Day (Britnee's birthday) and they captured several others and lots of concealed information on future terrorist attacks! America is GLAD he is GONE!! A TERRIBLE and EVIL man that needed to be put to death! It's been 10 years since the attacks on the WTC, Pentagon and the plane that went down in the PA field! It was a GOOD day for AMERICA!!**
I am done blogging tonight and I just got my General Conference issue of the Ensign today, so I will 1st read the talk given by Elder Quentin L. Cook (pg. 18) entitled: LDS Women Are Incredible! I like just opening the magazine up to a page and read instead of reading from page 1 to the end. I just need to MARK the talks I've read with a marker cuz I sometimes forget that I've read a talk and end up reading it several times...which isn't a bad thing...but I do want to read ALL of the talks and then go back and REPEAT!! Kinda sounds like a shampoo commercial! LOL!! Lather, Rinse, Repeat (Read, Learn, Repeat). LOL! :)
TTFN my friends! :)
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